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Artificial Intelligence for the Artificially Intelligent

Perhaps AI isn’t referring to the technology itself, but only those who use it.
March 7, 2025

Lessons from the Eastern Oyster

So live like the oyster, eat an oyster, and remember to recycle your shell for the benefit of future generations of man and mollusk alike.

Between Spirituality and Literature

The resulting work is by turns wise and questioning, witty and candid, self-effacing and impassioned.

“Ordo Amoris” and ending Burnout Culture

Only then can attention and passion be directed in the most life-giving ways and only then can a healthy culture emerge from a disconnected and attenuated one.
March 4, 2025

The Space Travelers

If space travel is not for mankind, then what is man’s relationship to space supposed to look like?
March 3, 2025

Pilgrimage, Translation, and Control

“Sexuality After Industrialism.” James Wood urges conservatives to learn from Ivan Illich’s analysis of gender: “Illich forces us to reconsider the very foundation of our gender debates. Targeting the sexual…

Watching the Tide Come In

You’re forgiven, your future right here, given for you.
February 28, 2025

Grief in the White House

Parental bereavement is as profound as the lifelong changes that accompany it

Regenerative Agriculture and the Human Good with Ashley Fitzgerald

Cities always import more resources than they can produce. That's kind of the definition of a city.

Subservience to Progressive Little Notions

If beauty can save the world, maybe it can even save the art world.
February 25, 2025

Catchin’ Sheeps-The Value of Hard Work

I know it… But we do need a barn.
February 24, 2025

Stuck, Mud, and Gentleness

“How Progressives Froze the American Dream.” Yoni Appelbaum’s essay, drawn from his new book Stuck, has some fair critiques of NIMBYism and thoughtful reflections on the tensions inherent in zoning,…
Jeffrey Bilbro
February 22, 2025

Let us Converse Together (Without Our Phones)

Bilbro’s book is a careful study through profound literary texts about how we live in a world that has no patience for careful study through profound literary texts.

Minding Laurie Johnson’s Gap

[Cross-posted to In Medias Res] President Trump has been in office a month as of today, and the maelstrom of orders and actions which he has taken has elicited delight,…

Against Spreadsheet Brain and For Taking Action with Ashley Fitzgerald

There’s a type of guy, sometimes they're Silicon Valley guys, sometimes they're just tech bros, sometimes they're environmentalists who have lost their minds

Is Ross Douthat Our C.S. Lewis?

I come to praise Douthat, not to bury him.
February 18, 2025

Learn This Lesson from the Fig Tree

He seems pleased that he’s protected me and mine. Or maybe ours.
February 17, 2025

Hacking, Splendor, and the Dakotas

“Salesforce Is Using A Hallucination To Sell AI.” Alan Kluegel turns an analysis of a dumb AI commercial into a meditation on the likely social effects of AI adoption: “The…
Jeffrey Bilbro
February 15, 2025

Writing Exile and Reading Homeward

Here, then, is my homecoming of the imagination: to hold the past bright in memory, and to love also the saplings and the weeds of my exile.
Matthew Miller
February 14, 2025

On Nosferatu, Moloch, and AI

Sometimes, it’s okay to be scared. At the very worst, it’s just a story.
February 13, 2025

The Anti-Anxious Generation with Ashley Fitzgerald

So I'm wondering where the spirit of the American pioneer, where the culture of the can-do man has gone?

Writing for the Common Good

I can relate the vice of envy most closely with my own writing, because that’s my profession, and I’ve longed to be a professional novelist since I was in elementary…
February 11, 2025

Why Can’t We Be Friends?

"Is Christianity only politically efficacious in helping us determine who are our friends and who are our enemies?"
February 10, 2025

Matter, Gurus, and Lambing

“Matter Matters.” Paul Kingsnorth kicks off a new series at his Substack exploring ancient holy sites in Europe: “I’ve always been fascinated by how humans interact with their landscapes: what…